keep pace

keep pace

(with someone or something)

1.Lit. to move at the same speed as someone, something, or an animal; to match someone or some creature pace for pace. The black horse was having a hard time keeping pace with the brown one.Tom runs very fast and I couldn't keep pace with him.

2.Fig. to manage to move, learn, change, etc., at the same rate as someone or something. Bill can't keep pace with the geometry class.You've just got to keep pace.

keep pace (with somebody/something)

keep pace

Also, keep up. Go at the same rate as others, not fall behind. For example, The teacher told his mother that Jimmy was not keeping up with the class. Shakespeare had the first term in A Midsummer Night's Dream (3:2): "My legs cannot keep pace with my desires." [Late 1500s]

It would allow for an appropriate annual adjustment for medical inflation so that VA can maintain adequate staff levers and keep pace with increased costs for medical equipment, Supplies, and pharmaceuticals.

But Rick Parry, who quit the Premier League to become Liverpool's chief executive designate, believes they need a 60,000- seater stadium to keep pace with Europe's leading football powers - and refused to rule out a move from Anfield where they have played since 1892.

Today's Storage Area Networks (Fibre Channel-based, iSCSI, or FCIP), and Network Attached Storage (NAS) system designs, often do not deliver enough performance, flexibility, or scalability to keep pace with growing demands for capacity and throughput.

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